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Aviation History
1958
1958 - 0494.PDF
510 CIVIL AVIATION . . . AIR TRANSPORT AT OXFORD T AST Friday, April 11, marked the end of the third air transport••—' course at Oriel College, Oxford. As in the previous two years, it was arranged by the Royal Aeronautical Society, whose descrip-tion of its aim and purpose may be quoted as follows: — "In such a complex industry as air transport, management tends tobecome departmentalized, both in experience and approach; it tends to lack the broad knowledge which is essential to the man who aspiresto wider responsibilities, and on whom the future depends. This broader knowledge is difficult to acquire; it is to overcome this difficultythat the Air Transport Course has been conceived." For three weeks each year around Easter-time (when theUniversity is down) about 30 such men take leave of the hurly- burly of their air transport activities to assimilate, in the peacefulscholastic atmosphere of Oriel College, that "broader knowledge." They come, as the photograph on page 506 indicates, in diversenationalities from all sections of the industry. The three-week course is highly concentrated: lectures begin at9 a.m. and finish at 6.15 p.m., with guest speakers on three or four evenings a week. The students actually attend a total of 52lectures and addresses, each followed by a half-hour discussion. Towards the end of the first week, the resident lecturers (see below)present "case studies" to the course. These are tackled, mainly in the students' spare time, and in a highly competitive spirit, bythree groups or seminars. This year the main case-study took the form of the sort of problem which is today facing most airlines.A hypothetical route-network varying in stage-lengths from 150 to 3,500 miles was presented, together with 1957 traffic results, costs,revenues, frequencies, types of aircraft, competition, and so forth. The problem was to decide, on the basis of these data and onindividually agreed assumptions, a fleet-replacement programme for 1965. "Manufacturers' data" on six hypothetical new trans-ports, three jet and three turboprop, were supplied. This exercise developed to a notable degree one of the most valuable, ifincidental, aspects of the course—the cross-pollination of experi- ence and ideas among the students themselves. Resident lecturers: S. F. Wheatcroft, economics; K. G. Wilkinson(B.E.A.) and D. C. Tennant (T.C.A.), operations; A. R. Barrowdough, air law. Guest lecturers: Bo Bjorkman, secretary-general, Air ResearchBureau; V. de Boursac, secretary. Traffic Conference 2, International Air Transport Association; Winston Bray, commercial planningmanager, B.O.A.C., Horace Brock, executive vice-president, New York Airways; B. M. Brough, organization and methods officer, B.E.A.; FLIGHT Opened in London on April 9 were Silver City's new offices in Knights- bridge. Since the company cut their fares last Decem- ber, they have booked 30,000 cars. Last year the num- ber was 14,000 over the same period. Thomas T. Carter, Civil Air Attache, U.S. Embassy in London; E. J.Dickie, deputy director, Control and Navigation (Plans), M.T.C.A.; G. Fitzgerald, commercial research and schedules manager, Aer Lingus;W. G. Franklin, joint managing director, Silver City Airways; Raymond Nivet, assistant to deputy d.g., Air France; Professor E. J. Richards,Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, Southampton University; F. H. Robertson, chief project designer, Short Bros, and Harland, Ltd.; L.Scarman, Q.C.; J. B. Scott, chief economics officer, B.O.A.C; Dr. K. R. Sealy, lecturer in geography, London School of Economics; RossStainton, general manager, eastern routes, B.O.A.C.; R. H. Whitby, performance and analysis manager, B.E.A. Guest speakers: R. E. Hardingham, secretary and chief executive,Air Registration Board; F. M. Owner, consultant to de Havilland Engine Co.; Sir Duncan Cumming, director, Associated Companies,B.O.A.C. and managing director of Associated British Airlines (Middle East); Peter Masefield, vice-president of Royal Aeronautical Society andmanaging director of Bristol Aircraft; Dr. G. S. Hislop, chief designer of helicopters, Fairey Aviation; Professor D. Goedhuis, Professor of AirLaw at Leyden University and Civil Air Attache at Royal Netherlands Embassy in the U.K.; Capt. R. B. Tapp, London manager of QantasEmpire Airways; Sir William Hildred, director-general, I.A.T.A. The traditional Bonally Dinner which concluded the Course hada distinguished top table, including Sir William Hildred and Sir Arnold Hall (who proposed the toasts); Sir Frederick HandleyPage; Sir Sydney Camm; Mr. N. E. Rowe; Maj. G. P. Bulman; Mr. S. N. Grant-Bailey and Mr. Henry Marking (who togetheroriginally inspired the Course); and Professor J. Jewkes. BREVITIES (CANADIAN PACIFIC AIRLINES' first Britannia trans-Arctic^ service will leave Amsterdam late on Sunday, June 1, arriving at Vancouver at 0640 the following morning. C.P.A.L. Britanniaservices to Hong Kong (via Tokyo) and to Australasia are planned to start in August and October respectively. * * * Boeing is planning to buy back 14 of B.O.A.C.'s 16 Stratocruisers during 1959. * * *Trans-Australia Airlines have taken up their option on a further six Fokker Friendships, bringing their total combined order to 12.* * * Cairo radio has reported the purchase of Tu-104s by Misrair/ Syrian Airways. * * * Paris airport authorities have forbidden C.S.A. to operateTu-104s into Orly because of the aircraft's high noise-level. Latest information from New Zealand suggests that T.E.A.L. is to be re-equipped with Electras rather than Comet 4s. * * * T.A.I, are reported to be negotiating with the Australian Government for permission to serve Sydney instead of Brisbane, and also to extend their services across the Pacific to California. * * * We regret to record that on April 6 a Capital Airlines' Viscount crashed during approach to Tri-City airport, Michigan. All 44 passengers and three crew lost their lives. * * * By mid-summer all B.E.A. international services will be flownby Viscounts, except for local Gibraltar operations and for the London - Salzburg service, on which DC-3s will continue to beused. * * * A Bill shortly to be placed before the Australian Federal Parlia-ment will propose that carriers' liability on inter-State services be increased from £A2,000 to £A7,500, bringing rates in line withthose agreed at The Hague in 1955 for international services. * * * Supplies for Australia's first chair-lift, rising 1,440ft fromThredbo, N.S.W., to Crockenback Peak, will be transported by helicopters belonging to Helicopter Utilities Pty., Ltd. The airlift,involving about 100 tons of material, will take four days to complete. * * * In return for allowing Aerofiot to transit Copenhagen on London -Moscow services, S.A.S. will be permitted to overfly Russian territory on services between Scandinavia and the Middle East,will receive rights for a second route to Moscow, and will be granted navigational assistance on their polar services to Tokyo. Extensible finger: installed at O'Hare Airport, Chicago, is this pas- senger "aero-gangplank." It can be adjusted by remote operation.
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